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The origins of AIDS /

"This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times. Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent evolution and transmission...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pepin, Jacques, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Out of Africa
  • The source
  • The timing
  • The cut hunter
  • Societies in transition
  • The oldest trade
  • Injections and the transmission of viruses
  • The legacies of colonial medicine I: French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun
  • The legacies of colonial medicine II: the Belgian Congo
  • The other human immunodeficiency viruses
  • From the Congo to the Caribbean
  • The blood trade
  • The globalisation
  • Assembling the puzzle
  • Epilogue: lessons learned.